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I hope no BAD people show up

GiggleBox — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:06:05 -0400

And by "bad" I think the uber liberal N&O's effort to find a white male candidate is just as expected, in that crazy opposite from what Art Pope and FoxNews says kind of way.

Re: Cunningham quacks like a candidate

MalleusMaleficarum — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:23:19 -0400

North Carolina deserves much better representation in the Senate than Richard Burr. Cal Cunningham is making the right moves by conferring with Senator John Kerry and the Truman National Security Project. Cunningham would be a vast improvement over the incumbent. I hope he runs.

Re: Cunningham quacks like a candidate

politicalzoonc — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:16:18 -0400

I hope he does continue to pal around with Kerry. He should also hammer out his campaign plan with John Edwards as well.

Re: Cunningham quacks like a candidate

Kingixolib — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:25:37 -0400

Career politicians breed corruption and lies. Vote them out or they and their cronies either die in or retire from public office.

Option one....you win
Option two....you lose

From what I can see this cat Cunningham has only served one elected term in public office...that being the case,I feel he deserves consideration for the seat now held by Burr.

Re: Senate candidates work Dem dinner

BitterEXdemocrat — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:00:19 -0400

Marshall says JOBS are her top priority? really?

then WHY doesnt she get Bev and crowd to OUTLAW NC employers from hiring ANY ILLEGALS???

Re: Cunningham quacks like a candidate

BitterEXdemocrat — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:52:57 -0400

apparantly the RACIST Vance Aycock attracted democraackkk racists from across the state on Saturday evening ...even Asheville locals on welfare were seen in the crowd...how did they afford the $100 ticket?

No mention was made of a REAL NC JOBs program by the Governess...NONE, ZERO, NADA!

this bunch of NC CRIMINALS should be ASHAMED of their SLAVE drivin selves!

Cal Cunningham makes Elaine Marshall look exciting

GiggleBox — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:12:38 -0400

At this point, I'm the grown up in the blogging conversation. That's saying something.

You Facebookers need to get over your man crush. Cal has sat on the pot so long he's literally working for Burr now. Cal needs to skip a few events, call his Mommy for a wipe and go away quietly now.

Lewis already has more money than Elaine has put through CoinStar at FoodLion in her long, long life. That's saying more.

Re: Burr race ranked 10 of 15

politicalzoonc — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:56:34 -0400

Since the N&O doesn’t actually do actual reporting anymore and only posts what other people post on their blogs, I thought I would add this from Charlie Cook of the Cook Political Report:

"And Democratic hopes of knocking off the two GOP incumbents who might be vulnerable - Sens. David Vitter in Louisiana and Richard Burr in North Carolina - appear to be slim and diminishing. It's not very likely that many Republican incumbents will lose re-election in the South these days. If Vitter behaves himself and Burr very visibly hits every county a couple times in the next year, Democrats have virtually no chance in either state."

How about doing a blog post on what Charlie Cook posted. Oh wait, that might make Burr look good and we know the N&O doesn’t want that.

Re: Burr race ranked 10 of 15

Tomarken — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:54:03 -0400

I wonder if it only jumped one spot because there isn't yet a powerful, dynamic and grassroots powered candidate in there yet... like, say, Cal Cunningham?

It appears as if Cal has kept his nose down, met with the right people (I saw him, Grier Martin, John Kerry and other veterans pop up in photos yesterday at the Senate Climate Change Bill unveiling) and really consolidated his base of support and campaign structure so that he can move into this race forcefully and at his own pace.

Again, these may just be my wild delusions, but seeing the race move up a spot is still positive. Because no one has really come out and started exposing Burr for the right wing ideologue and predator to North Carolina' middle class that he is - yet - I feel we still have a ways to go to reinforce (at least to the DC folks) that this race IS going to flip and that NC will go even Blue-er in 2010.

As we all saw Chris Christie's negatives sky rocket this past month (in the New Jersey Governor's race) and Corzine close in (though, still, he has a lot of work to do with so many disenfranchised voters), we at least learn that people are not going to vote for folks who do not honestly work towards their well being and who put their personal interests (and wallets) above their constituents'. Once people get to know Burr - and, at present, they don't - they will see how rotten and unproductive he has been on behalf of all North Carolinians. And I think they will be smart enough to respond by kicking him out of office!

Re: Burr race ranked 10 of 15

MalleusMaleficarum — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:43:33 -0400

Burr is clearly in danger of losing his seat. Remember, that Burr came into office in 2004 -- a year of Republican success predicated on 9/11 and an opposition that was badly in disarray - John Kerry voted for the war before he voted against it. That said, the Democrats must select a top-quality candidate who will take the fight to Burr who was one of the strongest supporters of the failed and discredited policies of Bush-Cheney. Let's not forget that Burr panicked and ordered his wife and family to run to the ATMs to extract the maximum amounts of cash during the meltdown. This race should be interesting -- and Burr should be booted out by a competent opponent.

Re: Democrats still seeking a speaker

BitterEXdemocrat — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:19:18 -0400

John Edwards would probably draw more eager gossip mongers if he promises to talk about 'things'...

Or, maybe a live remote speech by James B. Black, now of Georgia.

Re: Vance and Aycock at the U.S. Capitol

include_all — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:41:40 -0500

Hopefully, the multi-cultural leadership of the state Democratic Party will add the name of a female/ethnic minority leader to the V-A dinner. Perhaps the event can become the Zeb Vance-Charles Aycock-Jeanne Lucas Weekend.

Adding the LUCAS name would be a CHANGE IN WHICH WE CAN BELIEVE. Also, it would be a fitting tribute to retiring party chair Jerry Meek if he can help to facilitate this change shortly after the swearing-in ceremony of President Barack Obama.

It would be an inclusionary addition to the big Democratic Party events: (Vance-Aycock), (Jefferson-Jackson), and (Sanford-Hunt).

Re: Mike Easley, stand-up comedian

rpkt06 — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:39:18 -0400

Beverly Perdue is a liar …..“You can't trust her, I just call it like I see it” THESE ARE THE WORDS OF Joe Mavretic, the former DEMOCRATIC speaker of the NC house. Here is the video of Mr. Mavretic saying these words and explaining why he said it. The entire clip is 6 minutes long, forward it to 5 minutes if you just want to hear the part where he says WE CANT TRUST BEVERLY PERDUE!!!

***This is something you will only see on this blog!! Contact your local media and ask them why they haven’t said a word about this shocking clip!!

Re: Mike Easley, stand-up comedian

Isaac136 — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:05:54 -0400

Carlton, do you realize that your first sentence doesn't actually make any sense?

And by the way, just fyi: Allen wasn't tossed out for a made up word. He was tossed out for being a moron. I haven't seen any "slander" here, but maybe you think "slander" is a made up word, too, and that you can just throw it around to mean anything you want.

Something tells me that no one in this country would ever beg for Bush to come back to office. Even if people found they didn't like Obama, I don't think they'd say, "You know, Bush guy, the one who drove this country into the ditch, made a laughingstock of us all, took us to war on false pretenses, led us into recession -- yeah, let's have him back."

But dream on (when you're able to sleep).

Re: Macaca

bnartist — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:05:04 -0400

Here's your made-up word: